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In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or the Cold War. Though hyperbolic, My America was, as Laura A. Belmonte shows, merely one of hundreds of pamphlets from this era written and distributed in an organized attempt to forge a collective defense of the "American way of life."

Selling the American Way examines the context, content, and reception of U.S. Propaganda during the early Cold War. Determined to protect democratic capitalism and undercut communism, U.S. information experts defined the national interest not only in geopolitical, economic, and military terms. Through radio shows, films, and publications, they also propagated a carefully constructed cultural narrative of freedom, progress, and abundance as a means of protecting national security. Not simply a one-way look at propaganda as it is produced, the book is a subtle investigation of how U.S. propaganda was received abroad and at home and how criticism of it by Congress and successive presidential administrations contributed to its modification.

Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable.New York Times Book ReviewIn the American Revolution, Virginians were the
most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians ...

Carl Berger here relates the fascinating story of the propaganda and subversion activities of both
factions during the American Revolutionary War. The writ­ings of the period, the archives and litera­ture, are filled with intriguing references to secret arts and machinations, ...

In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for
stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. ...

In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked
the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, disunion connoted the dissolution of the republic-the failure of the founders' effort to ...

There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in
the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland ...

This fascinating survey blends anthropology and military history to reexamine the European invasion of North
America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing conflicts beginning with King Philip’s War in New England and ending with the conquest of Indians in ...

Watch the Author Interview on KNMEIn both the historic record and the popular imagination, the
story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling ...